Katie Lynn Joyce represents clients in high-stakes civil litigation and criminal defense. Her experience includes patent, trade secret, and other intellectual property cases; fiduciary duty and breach of contract disputes; and white-collar criminal defense. She has represented plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal courts, as well as in arbitration. Ms. Joyce has also played key roles on multiple trial teams, including one that secured the recovery of a multi-million dollar award, in addition to attorneys’ fees, for former shareholders of a tech company.
Prior to joining Keker, Van Nest & Peters, Ms. Joyce served as a law clerk to Judge Richard A. Paez of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Judge Christina Reiss of the U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont. Ms. Joyce earned her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in anthropology.
We are defending Comcast subsidiaries FreeWheel Media and Beeswax.io against infringement claims based on patents directed to targeted advertising brought by AlmondNet in the District of Delaware.
We represented Zscaler in parallel infringement suits brought by Symantec in the District of Delaware asserting 14 patents against Zscaler’s network-security platform. We succeeded in transferring both cases to the Northern District of California, invalidating several patents on motions to dismiss in District Court, and eliminating additional claims in proceedings before the Patent Office. As a result, we settled the remainder of the litigations very favorably before trial.
We are defending Netflix against a 12-patent case Broadcom filed in the Central District of California. We successfully transferred the case to the Northern District of California, where it is pending before Judge James Donato. We successfully obtained rulings dismissing six of the patents as abstract under Alice, with an additional patent invalidated during inter partes review proceedings before the PTAB. We are also defending Netflix against a separate 5-patent case originally brought by Broadcom in the Eastern District of Texas. A three-judge Federal Circuit panel ordered the district court to transfer the case to the Northern District of California where it is now proceeding before Judge Edward Chen. After the transfer, the firm achieved a stay of all district court proceedings pending inter partes review proceedings before the PTAB.
We are defending Google in a series of patent cases alleging that Google’s network protocol infringes Jenam’s patents. A three-judge Federal Circuit panel ordered the district court to transfer the case out of the Western District of Texas where it was originally filed, ruling that the court abused its discretion by denying Google’s motion to move the case to California. The lawsuit is now proceeding before Judge Jon Tigar in the Northern District of California. Following the transfer order, the firm achieved a stay of all district court proceedings pending inter partes review proceedings before the PTAB.
We are defending Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc. (CREXi), a fast-growing commercial real estate marketplace, against a copyright and unfair competition lawsuit brought by industry giant CoStar.
We represented software innovator SRS Acquiom in a trade-secrets misappropriation case against PNC Bank and two former SRS employees, alleging that the employees improperly retained SRS confidential information and used it, with PNC, to unfairly compete against SRS for online M&A payments-and-escrow business.
We defended the former CEO of Bumble Bee Foods in a five-week jury trial in the Northern District of California against charges that he conspired to fix prices of canned tuna sold in the United States.
Katie Lynn Joyce and Catherine Porto discuss ways to build a strong trade secret damages model with Reuters Legal News. Read more
Keker, Van Nest & Peters is pleased to announce that the firm has elevated associates Bailey Heaps, Katie Lynn Joyce, and Chris Sun to Partners, and Kristin Hucek and Ian Kanig to Of Counsel, effective January 1, 2023. Read more